Third-Party Tools

Use of third-party support tools and utilities are integral to the integration and support of our video processors. There are other tools/utilities to provide this same functionality and developers should use what works best for them.

Disclaimer: SightLine Applications offers these links as a convenience. Users that download these do so at their own risk and are bound to the usage agreements contained for each product.

Tera Term

Link to Tera Term, a terminal emulator that is widely accepted as the ‘de-facto’ open source standard.

Eterlogic’s Virtual Serial Port Emulator

VSPE is intended to help software engineers and developers to create/debug/test applications that use serial ports. It is able to create various virtual devices to transmit/receive data. This utility is used in the TCP-Pass-Through examples in supporting documentation

WinSCP – SFTP

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, SCP client, FTPS client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.

FileZilla – FTP

Link to FileZilla, a FTP client utility that can be used for accessing our customer FTP portal. NOTE: Please use the supplied username, password, and address provided by SightLine Applications.

MiniTool – Disk Partition

Link to MiniTool, a partition manager that you can use to format and create partitions on MicroSD cards or physical hard drives.

ExifTool Application

Great application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. ExifTool supports many different metadata formats, and it's very easy to use.

Wireshark

Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.